How often do you think about how much power the device you use gives you? Electricity is an innovation that we take for granted, but it has an interesting and controversial past, and for the first time in history it will undergo major changes. Everything we do depends on electricity, and our dependence on it is only getting stronger. Ensuring sufficient power supply to a wide range of smart devices for Industry 5.0 and the evolutionary transition to Society 5.0 (S5.0) will require smarter energy consumption and energy harvesting through the use of energy management and new energy harvesting and distribution methods. The developing digital power generation is well suited for powering devices with different loads, USB is already actively used for low-voltage devices, various types of batteries, accumulators and fuel cells are suitable for wearable autonomous devices. 

Intelligent Energy Management System (IEMS) offers important implications for energy efficiency and sustainability. Although Industrial productivity as the primary techno-economic objective of Industry 5.0 favors energy efficiency, the digitalization of industrial operations, smart products, connected customers, and the overall overconsumption and shorter product lifecycle intrinsic to the ongoing industrial revolution lead to the rebound in energy demand. IEMS promotes energy efficiency through real-time monitoring and control of energy systems, enhancing the technical and commercial efficiency of energy production, assessing energy quality, and improving the reliability of energy systems. IEMS and the complementing technologies such as cloud demand response systems, smart storage, intelligent charging technologies, microgrids, and blockchain-based peer-to-peer electricity trade help bridge the gap in developing renewable energy resources and integrating them into industrial and commercial operations.

Human interaction and recognition technologies (HIRT) play a significant role in enabling the human-centricity feature of Industry 5.0. The last-gen HIRT had many difficulties identifying the human’s behavior spatial complexity, emotions, and action characteristics. The emerging HIRT under Industry 5.0 agenda aims to optimally interconnect and integrate humans with machines so that the resulting human-machine interaction offers safer, streamlined, and more pleasant physical and cognitive tasks. Vision-guided robotics, short-wave infrared technology, sensor fusion, sensor data triangulation, embedded vision systems, adaptable human intention and trajectory prediction, and multi-lingual speech and gesture recognition are examples of vital emerging HIRT that can play a significant role in Industry 5.0. No sensing and cognition technology has the necessary emotional intelligence to seamlessly judge the ever-changing working condition and arrive at the best replication of what humans would genuinely do in a given situation. Indeed, HIRT may only deliver its functions while interacting with other technological constituents of Industry 5.0, such as CAI, C-CCP, cloud data, and edge computing.  USB communication and power may be suitable for human interface RT (HIRT) devices.

Industrial Smart Wearable (ISW) is essential to Industry 5.0 since the human worker will play an ever-more essential role in value creation under this paradigm. The proliferation of more intelligent and advanced industrial wearables would allow workers to perform their tasks safer, faster, and more productively. There is a diverse and growing range of emerging ISW available to businesses, which offer various functionalities in line with Industry 5.0 objectives. Bio-inspired protective gears and exoskeletons can improve industrial workers’ capabilities, strength, productivity, and stability. Head-worn ISWs can enhance human operators’ navigation and information-sharing capabilities, whereas clothing ISWs can use conductive or optical sensors to monitor and track the vitals of the workforce. Experts even pursue embedded tracking ISW that monitors workers’ mental and physical strain and stress. Within the Industry 5.0 context, ISW operates under C-CCP and relies on CAI and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to communicate and interact with other facilitating and emerging technologies such as 3D printers, adaptive-collaborative bots, and autonomous vehicles. Various types of batteries, accumulators and fuel cells are suitable for Industrial Smart Wearable (ISW).